Macromedia's dropped the ball on Flash Remoting in the MX2004 release. AS1.0 remoting apps will still work but despite the success of remoting in the original MX release Macromedia haven't bothered to ship AS2.0 remoting code as part of MX2004.
Tom Muck, author of the upcoming O'Reilly book Flash Remoting, highlights the advantages of remoting over web services and gives links to the plethora of community supported Flash Remoting initiatives (including opensource for PHP, Perl and J2EE).
Clearly the sales of .NET Remoting and J2EE Remoting were lacklustre -- but is that any reason to drop the technology? Macromedia appears to prefer SOAP web services, creating very slick data-binding options for these in the Flash Pro release. But it looks like you can't keep a good technology down; person13 is already well on the way to releasing AS2.0 Remoting Classes
With any luck Macromedia will support these initiatives and give some clarity on where they see the future of Flash Remoting.
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?? I'm not sure how A leads to B... we can now do text transfers, sure, but am I understanding you correctly that you see binary transfers as doomed because scripting hasn't yet been re-optimized to last week's release...?
(The universal "take" I see in here is that both text and binary transfers are important.)
Posted by: John Dowdell on September 17, 2003 10:04 AM
JD, sorry -- you're a post behind! Of course you are right, no sooner had I posted my provocative statement I had to reverse it!
Posted by: Geoff Bowers on September 17, 2003 10:18 AM